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    Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?

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      remi_imer @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10

      I am quite surprised myself. I was actually planning to swap the CPU to i7 4970 (that's the max the motherboard supports) since I saw one in FB market place for 40 CHF but it seems I don't need to do that at all which is good.

      But I am not running any other stuff in my PFsense Box. Just plain routing.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        With pf enabled though? It's also filtering?

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          remi_imer @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10

          Yes, i performed the test using Pfsense - Not direct.

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            RobbieTT @remi_imer
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            @remi_imer
            So how did you unlock the extra performance?

            Looking at your WAN speeds my LAN speeds are starting to look rather pedestrian:

            10 GbE.png

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              remi_imer @RobbieTT
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              @RobbieTT

              wow! that is nice speeds right there.

              I complained to my ISP. I don't what they did to be honest. Other than that, the other thing I changed the negotiation from in the switch from auto to 10.

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                RobbieTT @remi_imer
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                @remi_imer said in Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?:

                I complained to my ISP. I don't what they did to be honest. Other than that, the other thing I changed the negotiation from in the switch from auto to 10.

                Yeah I found that I had to specially set 10 GbE on both my switch and Netgate router to achieve the link speed. I think the pfSense guide recommends 'auto' but that didn't turn out so well.

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                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @RobbieTT
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                  @RobbieTT said in Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?:

                  specially set 10 GbE on both my switch and Netgate router

                  Pretty sure the 10GBase-T spec states mandatory auto, believe same for even 1000base-T, that these driver makers even offer hard setting.. There is stuff that is needs to be negotiated other than just link speed.. Master-Slave comes to mind

                  Glad your working but you sure shouldn't be setting hard speeds, it should be working with auto that is for sure.

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                    RobbieTT @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz said in Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?:

                    Glad your working but you sure shouldn't be setting hard speeds, it should be working with auto that is for sure.

                    I agree but in this case it became a need. I actually tripped on 3 interface bugs from the outset. The first (#14164) was fixed by a rather blunt method which made it to the 23.05 release. Before being able to address the next one a further interface issue was unmasked by resolving the first. That too is now on Redmine awaiting a fix (#14431).

                    We collectively gave-up on the remaining issues for now as they are complicated without the fix in-place for the recently unmasked issue.

                    Not everything in networking works as it should. That will never change, so we adapt instead.

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                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @RobbieTT
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                      @RobbieTT said in Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?:

                      Not everything in networking works as it should.

                      haha - yeah true ;)

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Yup, unfortunately I've found it quite common to require setting the link speed on 10G NICs. Especially if you want to link anything other than 10G.

                        However that's most on 10G fiber or DAC cables.

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                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 said in Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?:

                          if you want to link anything other than 10G

                          yeah if you want to run at gig across a 10G link that would make sense.. ;)

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                            RobbieTT @johnpoz
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                            @johnpoz said in Can PFsense handle 10/10 Gbe Internet?:

                            yeah if you want to run at gig across a 10G link that would make sense.. ;)

                            In my case it is running a 10 Gbit link on an SFP+ DAC from the 6100 to my first switch.

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